Why I Choose Freedom

Saigon [now Ho Chi Minh City]: The Kim-Son Printing House, 1956. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Preface by Madeleine M. D. Potter. Tall octavo. 92pp. Illustrated. Text in both English and Vietnamese. Printed wrappers over stapled textblock. Textblock neatly reattached, modest wear and toning, bottom corner a bit bumped and a couple of leaves with small marginal corner stains, a very good copy of a somewhat delicate publication. An introduction to Vietnamese life and culture with a strong anti-Communist introduction. Khanh was born in the north but fled south to escape Communism: "I can bear no longer the Vietcong regime under which I lived two years ago. I have tasted the bitterness of Communism that always reminds me of painful and heart-rending recollections... As for me, I am firmly resolved to cast my lot with the free Government and to remain here, in the South of Vietnam, till my dying day, unless we triumph over the Vietcong and come home gloriously." Madeleine M. D. Potter, author of the preface, is listed as Co. Director of Cultural Activities, Vietnamese-American Association. A very uncommon publication, written for an English-speaking audience almost a decade before the U.S. entered the war.